Also during his residency, Manchee plans to shoot new images of bookstores and of
personal photographic archives as a further exploration of how we catalog and preserve our visual history.
Inspired by the impossibility of knowing oneself through photographs, even after an endless accumulation of images, the artist reimagines and intervenes in the extensive
personal photographic archive of Michelle duBois, a call girl who traveled extensively in the Pacific Rim during the 1970s and»80s.
Not exact matches
Somnyama Ngonyama, meaning «Hail, the Dark Lioness», represents a newly
personal approach taken by Muholi as a visual activist confronting the politics of race and pigment in the
photographic archive.
In place of this systemic deficit, he has assembled and created an
archive of
photographic images and documents, both
personal and familial.
«The Mind's Eye presents works drawn from the artist's
personal archive of vintage materials and, in addition to
photographic prints, includes a selection of three - dimensional
photographic sculptures, films, artist's books, albums and work prints to give viewers first - hand insight into Uelsmann's creative process and expressive range.
Curated by Candice Allison, the exhibition includes recent and previously unseen work:
photographic prints, drawings, oil paintings, video, and installation; alongside paintings from the National Gallery of Zimbabwe's permanent collection, material from the National
Archives, and Chiurai's own
personal archive of propaganda posters and vinyl records.